Shayna
[ˈʃeɪ.nə]Meaning
from Yiddish שיין (sheyn), "beautiful"
Background Story
Shayna is a feminine name of Yiddish origin, borrowed from the Yiddish שיינע (sheyne), a feminine form of שיין (sheyn, "beautiful"), which is cognate with modern German schön. It also appears as Shaina, and in Polish as Szejna. Its Hebrew equivalent is Yaffa or Yafit, and after the Holocaust the name was often Hebraicized to Yaffa on immigration to Israel.
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